[HN Gopher] Fast File Finder for Windows is a tool for quickly f...
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Fast File Finder for Windows is a tool for quickly finding files by
name
Author : disadvantage
Score : 29 points
Date : 2022-02-05 18:54 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| desktopninja wrote:
| fascinating. Primarily use forfiles.exe or where.exe. Pwsh's get-
| childitem is similarly as fast
| chernevik wrote:
| Any Unix (including OSX) has "find" on the command line.
| civilized wrote:
| Why doesn't Microsoft do this themselves? They've larded up
| Windows with tons of worthless crap, so clearly they have a lot
| of time of their hands. Why not give the user something useful
| for once, something that OS X users have had for decades?
|
| Is the company full of morons, or do they just not see what's in
| it for them? That is, why bother helping the user if it won't
| necessarily make them $$$?
|
| Sad as they are, I find these little details fascinating. They
| really show how unimaginative and short-term oriented giant
| public tech companies often are.
|
| Apple ruining the MBP in 2016, only to walk back pretty much
| everything they did 6 years later, is another great example.
| ldx1024 wrote:
| The default search tool from the Microsoft file explorer is an
| embarassment. Routinely doesn't find files that are there. No
| positive indication of when the search is actually finished.
| Wack advanced search syntax that I can't bother to learn. I
| could go on, but the things I have already listed are more than
| enough.
|
| The search tool on Windows XP with the animated dog was 100x
| better than what they have there now. I usually just go with
| "dir" redirected to a file when I really need to find something
| now. Yet another example of "upgrades" being actively worse
| than what came before it.
| tester756 wrote:
| Maybe it due to language
|
| but when I want to open downloaded folder and search for it,
| then the first entry on the list is "remove downloaded maps"
| that I never/once used meanwhile 2nd option is the one that I
| always use, yet its still #2...
| logicalmonster wrote:
| I believe that all of these companies have some smart employees
| who are capable of tasteful design and who know about real
| problems with their products but who are screwed over by layers
| of self-serving bureaucracy. The project manager for some dumb
| feature in some corner of the OS wants to ensure their project
| is successful so they get a good review: that's often their key
| motivation. They're not as incentivized to expend engineering
| hours from their team and try and coordinate with 5 other teams
| to get something cool done.
|
| When it comes to building good stuff, having a powerful central
| figure like a Steve Jobs who can just murder bad features and
| force the implementation of good features is probably one of
| the best things a company can have.
| 0x008 wrote:
| They must think that this way they will make more money. In the
| end for them it is not about generating a good incentive for
| people to stay with windows, it is just about not giving them
| enough incentive to leave. And - given that most people who use
| windows have no alternatives - the bar is very low.
| DanTheManPR wrote:
| It seems incredibly weird to me that the start menu search
| can't do basic stuff like launch browser bookmarks.
| [deleted]
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| a) ISVs
|
| b) anti-monopoly lawsuits
|
| TL;DR: for every QoL feature Apple/Google would be praised, M$
| shitheads would be shown their place.
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| Neither of those factor into MS product decisions much any
| more.
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| It's hard to change after two decades of.
| teknopaul wrote:
| FYI mlocate works on Windows.
|
| Never had a PC without locate updated and grep
| adhesive_wombat wrote:
| I'm looking for a working alternative to Albert or Rofi in
| Windows. It seems there are several dead projects like Cerebro
| that integrate with tools like Everything.
|
| Crucially, it must be extensible so I can add domain specific
| plugins. Ideally I'd be able to reuse code between Windows and
| Linux, but I don't see any cross platform ones, so maybe it'll
| need shims.
| YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo wrote:
| development is slow but the dev is reachable and the tool does
| its job https://www.listary.com/
| naikrovek wrote:
| Voidtools Everything is my go-to for this, if anyone was thinking
| "I want to know what naikrovek is using to find files by name..."
| NicoJuicy wrote:
| I also use it in combination with everything toolbar
|
| https://github.com/stnkl/EverythingToolbar
| adamscybot wrote:
| Amazing! I always wanted Everything + deeper OS integration
| and this fits the bill.
| eigenvalue wrote:
| Agreed, I use Everything at least 10 times a day. Not only are
| searches instantaneous, but it doesn't even need to use a lot
| of time/compute to build the index because its using the built-
| in NTFS index. Why Microsoft doesn't expose a similar search
| tool is beyond confusing to me.
| rasz wrote:
| >I believe what you're doing is describing something that
| might be considered an entire doctoral research project in
| _insert whatever_ as "extremely simple" somewhat combatively.
|
| https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
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| also https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1487228574608211969
| "Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale" aka
| Nobody at Microsoft is able to do more than one thing at a
| time anymore.
| agumonkey wrote:
| It's totally absurd to develop the foundation for such a
| massively fast and useful tool yet have horrendous search
| features in your graphical user shell.
|
| Searching is a human right (only half joking)
| Barrin92 wrote:
| +1 for Everything. Fsearch is a good alternative on Linux
|
| https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch
| sixothree wrote:
| Everything mixed with AstroGrep is pretty much all you ever
| need for windows search.
| majkinetor wrote:
| DnGrep is MUCH better.
| ivanche wrote:
| Wow! Thanks a million! This comment alone is worth all the
| time I've spent on HN this year :)
| jokoon wrote:
| it doesn't work without NTFS indexing or a voidtool service
| J_cst wrote:
| Everything is just great.
| knight17 wrote:
| I am also a frequent user of Everything. If you are on Windows
| definitely give it a go. It is similar to the tool in this post
| but much more feature-rich.
|
| https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/
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| You can load it with the following bookmarks to explore and
| filter (e.g., see all 4K files in your system, or in a
| directory) your files in a nice way:
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| https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4239
| morninglight wrote:
| Using "dir" on the Windows command line can do a simple search.
| It is on every Windows machine and easy to use. It is not the
| fastest but it can be useful. Amazing how few people know how to
| use it. Just type "help dir" from the Windows command line.
| billforsternz wrote:
| Yes, dir /s file Looks for the file in the current directory
| and all subdirectories. I wish Unix ls could do the same thing
| as easily. MS-DOS rules forever I guess.
| snoopen wrote:
| I think 'find ./ -iname file' does the same on Linux?
| auxym wrote:
| or `gci -rec` in powershell
| Scramblejams wrote:
| What do y'all like for searching by file contents? For Windows
| and Linux?
| jokoon wrote:
| git grep is the best option, in my view
|
| if you want to go beyond, advanced stuff like elastic search
| might be necessary, though
| sdrinf wrote:
| For source code specifically: ggreer's silver searcher:
| https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
| jakub_g wrote:
| BTW: Sumatra PDF by the same author is also worth checking.
| auxym wrote:
| Sumatra is one of the rare pieces of windows software that I
| miss on linux.
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